Hunter Biden Seeks Criminal Probe Into Donald Trump Allies Who Stole Information From His Laptop

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, is seeking a federal investigation into former President Donald Trump's allies who had accessed and disseminated personal data from his controversial laptop.

The Associated Press reported that Hunter's lawyer asked the Justice Department's National Security Division in a letter Wednesday to also investigate the owner of the computer repair shop in Delaware where he reportedly dropped off his laptop in April 2019.

According to an independent review commissioned by CBS News, there was a huge amount of data on Hunter's laptop accumulated over time that is personal in nature. It included photos, videos, personal documents, text messages, emails, and voicemails from the user profile data. The audit reportedly showed more than 120,000 emails and 30,000 text messages.

Some of Trump's allies named in the letter, which Washington attorney Abbe Lowell signed, include Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, Giuliani's own lawyer, and the Wilmington computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac, who claimed that Hunter abandoned the water-damaged laptop at his store. The letter accused Mac Isaac, Giuliani, and others of "theft of computer services" and "possession of stolen property," according to CNBC News.

The letter noted that Mac Isaac chose to work with Giuliani, who was Trump's lawyer at the time, "to weaponize" Hunter's computer data against his father "by unlawfully causing the provision" of Hunter's personal data to the New York Post, which first wrote about the laptop.

The letter said Giuliani provided the information to a New York Post reporter shortly before the 2020 presidential election and also to Bannon. Hunter's lawyer noted that the president's son never consented to share any of his personal information or be accessed in that manner.

The letter said this "failed dirty political trick directly resulted in the exposure, exploitation, and manipulation" of Hunter's private and personal information. It added that "politicians and the news media have used this unlawfully accessed, copied, distributed, and manipulated data to distort the truth and cause harm" to the president's son.

The call for a federal investigation does not automatically mean that Justice Department officials will launch a probe into Trump's allies and others involved in releasing the laptop's data.

Hunter Biden Calling Probe Over Laptop

Hunter Biden's lawyers also wrote the same letter to the Delaware attorney general's office. The president's son is requesting a probe into the same people for allegedly violating several "Delaware laws" in accessing the information from his laptop.

Trump has previously called the mobile device "the laptop from hell." Biden's legal team also asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in another letter sent Wednesday to review the tax-exempt status of a charitable organization run by Garrett Ziegler. Hunter claimed that Ziegler uploaded the data he got from Giuliani to the organization's website.

In a separate letter, Hunter's lawyers asked Fox News and its host Tucker Carlson to retract and apologize for the "false and defamatory statements" made repeatedly about the president's son on-air, which included implying without evidence that he had unauthorized access to classified documents found at his father's Delaware home.

The letter said the host also accused Hunter of being involved in a "money laundering scheme to finance" his father's lifestyle by paying him $50,000 a month in rent.

Hunter Biden's Laptop Contents

John Paul Mac Isaac said the man who had given the laptop had come to his shop twice but never returned to get the computer or an external hard drive on which its contents had been stored.

He noted that he was not sure whether the man who came to his shop was Hunter Biden. But the man, when asked to fill out a work order, identified himself as "Hunter Biden."

When no one retrieved the laptop's computer or external drive, Mac Isaac then contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation as he started being scared for his safety because he knew what was on the laptop.

The agents then gave him a receipt for what they had taken. The documents found on Hunter's laptop described the deals he had and how fast he spent his money. Data on his hard drive showed that he spent more than $200,000 per month from October 2017 through February 2018 on luxury rooms, Porsche payments, dental work, and cash withdrawals.

Some of the laptop's contents also allegedly include text messages showing Hunter paying his legal assistant thousands of dollars under the table while they were in a sexual relationship over several months in 2018 and 2019. It also kept photos of him having sex with the assistant in or around June 2018, the New York Post reported.

The assistant is reportedly one of at least four women with who Hunter had sexual relations while they were on his payroll. It also included his sister-in-law Hallie, her older sister Elizabeth Secundy, and former stripper Lunden Roberts.

The laptop's contents also include Joe Biden's involvement in his son's business ventures. Hunter was being investigated by the Justice Department over his finances, including some of his business dealings in China.

Hunter Biden and his father were frequently accused by Donald Trump and his associates of wrongdoing concerning his business dealings in China and Ukraine during the 2020 election campaign. Both allegations were denied, with Joe Biden telling a reporter at the time that it was a "smear campaign."

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Written by: Mary Webber

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